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How do you create poe-a-tree?
In college it can be hard to find a spare moment. A moment to rest, a moment to create and…
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Speaker challenges poverty with dignity
In another life, Ismael Hernandez could be a passionate communist revolutionary living in Puerto Rico or Guatemala, fighting tooth and…
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Chapeltonix wins big at annual talent show
Last Saturday featured the Student Activities Committee’s annual Really Big Talent Show. A total of nine acts competed to win…
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Return of softball, baseball
The baseball team played Alma College last Saturday, taking two 7-6 walk-off wins in some intense playing. The team’s season record moved to 22-1 overall, with an MIAA record of 13-1, keeping them tied for first place in the MIAA with Albion College. The first game against Alma was won with a bases-loaded walk drawn…
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Hopey awards take place today, nominees announced
The annual Hopey awards take place today at 7 p.m., where athletes and coaches will be honored for their outstanding performances over the past year. The event welcomes the public to attend with no admission at DeVos Fieldhouse, with semiformal dress recommended. Seniors teammates sit with their coaches on the court floor, with friends and…
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Men’s lacrosse against sexual assault
Last Saturday the men’s lacrosse team joined Calvin College’s team in an “It’s On Us” teal-out match. It’s On Us was launched in September 2014 as a national movement to end sexual assault. It asks everyone to realize the need to engage in the conversation to end sexual violence and to step up to change…
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Lifestyle writing: Sweet and undefinable
When I joined the Anchor staff at the beginning of the semester, I had no idea what was in store for me. I didn’t even know what lifestyle writing was, except for those articles in Cosmopolitan that talk about how to apply the perfect dewey foundation or make your thighs look slimmer, which is fine,…
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A sick girl’s thoughts on finishing strong
Dear readers: it was my intention to run in this, the last issue of the Spring 2019 Anchor, an incredible article to wrap up the semester in a nice little bow. Perhaps I would’ve concluded my semester-long series, the Dow Diaries. Maybe I could’ve given you some really heartfelt advice that would bring you to…
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‘Etchings’ imprint upon the artistic soul
Rembrandt van Rijn, whose name has remained famous for centuries, was born in 1606 and lived to become a celebrated painter and champion of realism. He is most known for his Baroque paintings and, to a lesser extent, for his etchings, which display similar matters fashioned in different ways. Students, faculty and Holland residents now…
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Chekov’s ‘Seagull’ opens at DeWitt
If the Hope College Theatre Department has taught us anything this year, it is that they excel at performing sorrowful plays. Their newest production, “Seagull,” can best be described to the modern reader as “extreme sad boi hours.” The Russian play, written by Anton Chekov in 1895 does not leave the audience with a warm…
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New faces of leadership charge campus
The realm of politics and voting may seem worlds away. Our minds usually go straight to Washington, D.C., when we hear the word “Congress.” While there are big-ticket decisions going on many miles away, there are topics being discussed right on this campus by our own student body’s personal Congress. Recently, elections took place for…
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When senioritis meets sentimentality
As I sit down to write this piece, probably the last I’ll ever publish in the Anchor, I’m feeling a mixture of emotions. I’m sure many other seniors have been feeling that internal churning, too. On top of that, I’m listening to Liza Anne’s 2018 album “Fine but Dying,” which is almost too aptly titled…
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Is campus assessible to all students?
We’ve all heard the old saying “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” I thought for a while that must refer to the devastating feeling of breaking up with your first boyfriend or accidentally spending the entirety of your first paycheck, but after I fractured my L1 vertebrae, I gained a much different…